Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wächtler & Lange, With Case Archive Groff: British War Medal (466253

Groff: British War Medal (466253 A

Eden's worldwide reputation as an opponent of appeasement

my reason being to attend to urgent private affairs in England

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The medal is one of the earliest World War I veterans’ medals

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wächtler & Lange, With Case Archive Groff: British War Medal (466253(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core within a within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge soldered on its side and vertical pinback meeting a thick flat wire catch, pinback reverse marked with 100 for maker Rudolf Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida,